He said: "I've been interested in outer space since I was a little kid, and I wanted to do the project to really inspire the kids to get interested in science and maths, which I know can be really dry.

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"Parkside School launched a couple of teddy bears into space about eight years ago, and I promised myself I would do something similar one day.

"My daughter Isla is in Year 6 at Swavesey Primary School so she is just coming up to the end of her time there and I wanted to do it before she left."

The helium weather balloon used to carry the toy frog into space on July 10.

Andy used a GPS tracker to monitor the frog's journey, and a landing predictor which was created by students at Churchill College, Cambridge.

Another parent, Jon Ludlam, built a Raspberry-Pi based data logger to record temperature and air pressure inside and outside of the flight box, and Andy says this technology will hopefully be used by the school in science classes next year.

Andy's company Calibra Technology sponsored the mission, which cost around £450 in total - the helium gas for the balloon cost a surprising £150.

Mr Frog slowly returns to earth...

Andy continued: "As soon as we launched, we ran one last simulation to work out the predicted landing point, which was estimated to be Castle Acre, just north of Swaffham in Norfolk."